Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Nardelli’s background and personality were a perfect fit for that challenge and he delivered some of the company’s most profitable years. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator.

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Supply Chain Strategic Fit Innovation Idea Generation 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

But determining whether AI crime-fighting solutions are a good strategic fit for a company depends on whether the benefits outweigh the risks that accompany them. Below, we explain some of the steps they’re taking: Evaluating the strategic fit. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing and mitigating internal risks.

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Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Heat degrades the substrate of innovation, while light catalyzes it.” Lilly’s research shows these same effects can happen between members of alliance innovation teams.

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Productivity Products Survey Strategic Fit 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years. McDonald, who chaired the board’s committee that led the succession process, explained why it had gone to the outside. “I

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Most product teams or strategy groups go through a process of defining market requirements and scoping out the competitive landscape.

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